When Push Comes to Shove; Celebrating Teresa Heinz Kerry

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Yes, my rock 'n' roll Teresa told a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page editor to "shove it." The Trib's Colin McNickle should be told that every day, just on general principle. His editorial page once featured an "obituary" for Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham that implied she'd murdered her husband to become publisher. That wasn't just despicably unethical and heinously untrue, it was pretty nutty. That editorial prompted liberal talker Lynn Cullen to say on my old TV show she'd like to punch McNickle. Of course it was hyperbole, but McNickle threatened to sue. McNickle also told an online magazine that he wondered if Teresa was going to hit him when she approached him to utter the now-infamous line.

By the way, Teresa didn't flip out. She knew she'd uttered the word "un-American." But she got testy when McNickle used the phrase "un-American activities," which conjured up McCarthyera witch hunts in Heinz Kerry's mind, and made her wonder where McNickle was coming from, even before she found out he was one of Dickie Cougar Mellon Scaife's henchmen. When she discovered he was part of the Trib attack squad she got even angrier, and the rest is herstory.

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When Push Comes to Shove; Celebrating Teresa Heinz Kerry

I love the floppy, sloppy, somewhat moppy hair on Teresa Heinz Kerry's head. It says, "Hey, I might be a little bit edgy if you push me, so watch it." Sorry to those of you who want another Stepford fir...

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